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In the year 2124, personal jetpacks might be pretty well developed.

High speed electrified rail between all large, medium sized, and smaller hub cities, quiet elevated transit system rail (and tunnels where absolutely necessary) in and around every large and medium sized metro area, electric and non-electric bikes on demand for commuter/pleasure travel plus...

Yeah, it definitely looks like 1970s Los Angeles.

These AI depictions of Boston always remind me of HAL the AI computer going manic/paranoid in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey

Google maps shows four full quadrants of the cloverleaf, all with loop ramps.

Very artistic and surreal!

The old brickwork looks so great compared to the prefab panels used now,

I fully agree. GC has not aged well, looking today like a dystopian sci-fi movie filmed in a deserted Brasilia. It's long past time to tear down the windswept barren concrete monoliths and plazas, and replace them with a vibrant city of real buildings and streetscapes.

This massively expensive white elephant project isn't worth it. Just build a separated multi-use path on a bridge over the whole existing mess. And, to reduce the traffic accidents, eliminate the loop ramps in the opposite quadrants of the existing cloverleaf, to eliminate weaving. And...

Yes, futuring is not the MBTA's strong suit. Look at the screw-up on the North Bank pedestrian bridge's narrow column spacing, which will need to be relocated for the new rail tracks over the Charles.

Interesting article on the reasons for the high cost of housing in the Boston area at https://www.boston.com/real-estate/local-news/2024/07/22/why-is-housing-in-boston-so-expensive/

The original design was too good.

Looks like a photo from 1964.

Where would all the fill come from to fill the canal? A couple of mountains would have to be leveled to get that amount of fill material. I measured the area of the Cape Cod Canal on Google Erath. Assuming a 32 ft. depth of fill to cover this area, there would be 37,952,493 cubic yards of...

A low bridge would have to be built as either a lift bridge or a draw bridge, resulting in very long traffic backups due to bridge openings. I don't see any benefits that a low bridge would bring, only disbenefits.

It's also extremely difficult, impossible in many cases, to obtain permission from the US Army Corps to fill in bodies of water, due to impacts to aquatic species and habitat.

You seem to regard older people as some kind of virus. So what if the demographic on the Cape currently skews to older? How does that make a bridge replacement less necessary? Once the Boomers "die off" as you put it, others will take their place. The free market will adjust the housing...

For me personally, I honestly do get a bit perturbed at what I see as obstructionism and extreme NIMBYism, especially from people who don't even live near the project. This is, by any metric, a highly valuable and positive project, as outlined by many in the above posts. In contrast, an...

It boils down to public policy. One policy would be that SOVs (single occupancy vehicles) rule the roost and that bus transit is just an afterthought. A policy different than that would be that bus transit takes primacy over SOVs. I prefer the latter policy, and I would also say it is the...

The NB exit off of I-93 was a mistake from the beginning. My choice would be to eliminate it outright. If not that, then at least relocate it to what was originally planned in the Big Dig project, which was to place this off-ramp further to the south so that it would have dumped onto...